AT the Friday evening discourse before the Royal Institution on March 19, Lord Rutherford discussed “The Transmutation of the Heavy Elements”. During the last few years, our knowledge of the ...

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William D. Harkins achieves transmutation of elements, converting nitrogen to fluorine and then to hydrogen and oxygen by bombarding the starting element with a helium nucleus. A German physicist ...

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You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF. The startling announcement in 1902 of the Rutherford-Soddy theory of the transmutation of ...

Some weeks ago the scientific world was most agreeably surprised when word was flashed across the Atlantic that two young English physicists, Dr. J. D. Cockcroft and Dr. E. T. S. Walton, working in ...

A successful scientific enterprise usually begins as a dream. Then there is a turning point at which it ceases to be a dream, begins to take on the lineaments of reality. The point may be the conquest ...

IN a letter to NATURE of January 2, 1926, Prof. Smits records the obtaining of evidence of the transmutation of lead into thallium and into mercury. One of our research students has been employed for ...